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10 designs tagged “Fidget”.
Board games / Dice
Teetotum Set — Spinning-Top Dice (d6 · d8 · d10 · d12, 2-Colour)
The pre-dice gambling top, four ways: spin it, let it topple, read the up-facing number. d6/d8/d10/d12, each a 2-colour print with a modelled break-away support that peels off clean — no scars, no slicer supports.
Jewelry & accessories / Earrings
Articulated Worm Dangle Earring — Print-in-Place Flexi Worm
A tiny ~38 mm print-in-place worm that actually wiggles and sways when worn. Five segments linked by captive teardrop ball-socket joints — printed flat, belly-down, NO supports, then flexed free. Friendly face with eyes + an engraved smile, and a flat ear loop in the bed plane so it hangs in classic worm side profile. Print twice for a pair.
Around the home / Small Tools
Auxetic Grip Pad — Rotating-Squares Metamaterial (parametric, 4 sizes + coupon)
A flat, supportless auxetic grip pad — a sheet of rigid square tiles joined to their neighbours by thin living-hinge necks in a checkerboard, so it has a negative Poisson ratio (nu ~= -1): pull it and it expands on BOTH axes instead of necking in. That makes it go synclastic — drape it over a jar lid or dome and it caps the curve and hugs it instead of wrinkling, so it grips. Bundled at 4 grid sizes (3x3, 6x5, 8x8, 10x10), plus a 3x3 test coupon and the full parametric OpenSCAD source — change the grid, tile pitch, hinge width and thickness and re-render any size you like. Print in PETG or TPU: the necks are living hinges and PLA fatigue-cracks.
Toys & mechanisms / Fidgets
Flexi Snake — print-in-place articulated fidget that coils
A print-in-place snake that prints in one piece, no supports, and coils into a full spiral in your hand. 16 necked vertebrae on captive ball-and-stalk joints, each folding 50-70 degrees, plus a carved head with eyes and scale rings. Fully parametric: dial the number of segments and their length right in the .scad.
Toys & mechanisms / Fidgets
Infinity Cube — Animal Fidget (folding magic cube, 48 engraved animals, two-colour)
A folding infinity cube (magic cube) fidget toy: eight cubelets linked so you can fold it end over end forever. Every one of the 48 faces carries a different animal silhouette. Prints fully assembled — the links are captured by the cube geometry, not glued — and the animals come as a separate inlay STL so you can print them in a contrast colour. Confirmed printed and everting on a real machine.
Toys & mechanisms / Fidgets
Oldham Coupling Fidget — Offset-Shaft Constant-Velocity Demo Toy
A desk fidget that demos the Oldham coupling: spin the bottom knob and the top knob tracks it 1:1 even though the two shafts are parallel but laterally offset. A floating middle disc carries the rotation while its centre orbits a little circle. Five printed parts (4 unique designs), all flat and supportless. Useless, just fun.
Toys & mechanisms / Fidgets
Trammel of Archimedes — Do-Nothing Machine Fidget
A classic 'do-nothing machine': a gloriously useless desk fidget. Crank the knob and the arm traces a perfect ellipse over an engraved groove — and that's it, it does nothing else, forever. Two dovetail sliders shuttle in perpendicular channels; a knobbed crank arm snaps onto both. 3 unique parts (print the slider twice), all flat, no supports. Honest heads-up: the motion is not glass-smooth — at the crossroad a slider can catch and need a tiny nudge.
Jewelry & accessories / Earrings
Ship's-Wheel Earring — Free-Spinning, Print-in-Place
A miniature ship's-wheel (helm) charm whose wheel actually spins on its bail. Printed as ONE support-free job: the wheel comes off the bed already captive on a fixed axle between a foot and a top cap. Flat print, vertical axle, so every wheel-to-frame clearance is a clean horizontal gap — no supports, no teardrop bore. Symmetric — print twice for a pair.
Desk & office / Display Stands
Cyclo Turntable — 15:1 fine-adjust manual display base
A hand-cranked 15:1 cycloidal-drive turntable. Thumb-roll the knurled drum through a side window and the top platform creeps around 15× slower with near-zero backlash — a whole finger swipe nudges your object just 2–4°. Beautiful gearing to fidget with and to watch. Honestly kind of useless: it's a mechanism, not a product — a manual, slow-turning little pedestal. 5 printed parts, no supports, PLA.
Toys & mechanisms / Mechanical
Lazy-Tongs Snapping Dragon — extending scissor grabber
A lazy-tongs scissor reacher themed as a dragon: squeeze the tail and the neck telescopes out while the head snaps shut — one motion, one moving mechanism.